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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 2 · permalink

Beat 2

0:13–0:18 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:140:14Frame at 0:160:16Frame at 0:180:18

Play from 0:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen
title card, title card, title card
On screen
[{'text': 'KLEIN CON / JOHNSON FRANK EWORES ANTON SHARPLES / PRIVATE ve Paramount', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Direction: SEYMOUR KNEITEL\nAnimation: TOM JOHNSON FRANK ENDRES\nStory: I. KLEIN\nScenes: ANTON LOEB\nMusic: WINSTON SHARPLES', 'frame': 2}, {'text': 'Direction: SEYMOUR KNEITEL\nAnimation: TOM JOHNSON FRANK ENDRES\nStory: I. KLEIN\nScenes: ANTON LOEB\nMusic: WINSTON SHARPLES\nCopyright 1954 by Paramount Pictures Corporation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED', 'frame': 3}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static title cards with stylized text on a dark background, typical of mid-century animated film openings

The beat displays title cards for the 1954 animated film PRIVATE EYE POPEYE, listing crew credits and copyright information. No characters or actions are depicted, only static text on a dark background.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Private Eye Popeye (1954) at 0:14 (passage 0:13–0:18); US record: No renewal found

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